The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people.
In one famous shopping center an unusual person works as a security guard. He helps everyone: sellers of fashionable clothes, cleaners and barmen in cafeteria. He knows everybody and everything, and people around do love him. It is more than work, it is a real life, full-fledged life – he dresses free of charge, eats at restaurants, sleeps in a furniture store and participates in night races on floor polishers. Actually, he has a secret dream, that’ s why he saves all his money to carry out it some day.
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.
A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.